date; 20050126

ohkay. im actually posting. cause i went to visit my own blog [to see how nice it looked. mmmhmmm. jokin.] and sum people *hannah shimin mabel lyn* posted sum nice stuff about my blog. yaayy. and mabel. my font is so not small. its biiig. check yur eyesight. =)

we got cool new phones installed!! yaaay. basically its black (not the design tt looks cool. DUH. its the functions)its like...my old phone didnt even have a line in the room i sleep in. `there is 1 in my bedroom now though. and this one can actually go on loudspeaker. and the other person can hear yah. cool huh. well not really. most people already have phones like tt. jus tt mine is kinda OLD. and everything. humph.

and there are THREE WAY CONVOS AVAILABLE. yaaay!!!! me su n diane can have three way convos!! i tried jus now with diane, but su wasnt picking up her phone. humph..

anyway today was third lang. i so wanna quit. its not fair tessa gets to quit juz like that. i was so bord i wrote a five page letter to my angel it took 2 whole hours. gosh!yeah. and mom is in australia right now. WATCHING THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN. watching david nalbandian against hewitt. im so JEALOUS. dear lex is there too. i miss him already. he was so fun to have round. dont forget me lex dearie. im supossed to be doing my poetry pursuit. yeah. left it to laz min AGAIN. irony which should be simple enough.

As a figure of speech, irony refers to a difference between the way something appears and what is actually true. Part of what makes poetry interesting is its indirectness, its refusal to state something simply as "the way it is." Irony allows us to say something but to mean something else, whether we are being sarcastic, exaggerating, or understating. Irony is generally more restrained than sarcasm, even though the effect might be the same. The key to irony is often the tone, which is sometimes harder to detect in poetry than in speech. One thing is said, but the opposite meaning is intended.

copied that in. dont noe why. copied and paste off the net. well...not exactly. i changed a little bit! added and removed. removed loads. XD

i cant wait for march hols. SPEX tournament..all my gud friends will be there---suling, diane, shi min, steph, tessa, jia li, justin, patrick, n so on. yaaaay. and in feb.im looking froward to CHINESE NEW YEAR. anuther hol. we have wednesday thurs and fri off. PLUS the weekend. oooh lotsa money. yaaaayyyy. and also, on the 19th and 20th or is it 18th and 19th. wadeva. anyway tt weekend there's gamma at the club. hopefully im in diane/justins group. australia again wuld be so fun. so lots to look forward to.

i really like my class this year. except for like 2 people who get on my nerves. other than that they rox totally! not lyk last year. i HATED my class las year. absolutely detested it. this year i really really lyk evey1 except to people who shall not be named from my school last year. haha. and they arent elissa/jacqueline. anyway.

so nuthin much about. gotta go find poem. be right back. chow.

......I CANT FINNND AN IRONIC POEM.
HEEELLLLP.dead.dead.dead.dead.dead.dead.

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ohkay. done phew. take a look.
IRONY

As a figure of speech, irony refers to a difference between the way something appears and what is actually true. Part of what makes poetry interesting is its indirectness, its refusal to state something simply as "the way it is." Irony allows us to say something but to mean something else, whether we are being sarcastic, exaggerating, or understating. Irony is generally more restrained than sarcasm, even though the effect might be the same. The key to irony is often the tone, which is sometimes harder to detect in poetry than in speech. One thing is said, but the opposite meaning is intended. It is is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. Irony is something we use in our everyday life.


E.g.
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich--yes, richer than a king--
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

-poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson


In this poem ‘Richard Cory’ is a man who has everything. The way the poem is written is to make us believe that he is happy. Examples are the fine clothes he wears and how friendly he is towards the town. The town envies him. Then, all of a sudden he commits suicide in the last stanza. It makes you think: why would someone who has everything commit suicide? Richard Cory , on the outside, appeared to have it all. But by the end of the poem it becomes clear that he is unhappy for some reason or the other. It makes us aware that people only let us see what they are comfortable showing.

ohkay wadeva. skip all that. BORING, OHKAY. gotta go anyways. printers not working. calling my dad ud if he sees im not doing work? im dead.
chow al yah people!

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